{"id":633357,"date":"2026-04-28T04:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/633357\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T04:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:18:09","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-in-hot-water-with-donald-melania-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/633357\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel in hot water with Donald, Melania Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump and Melania Trump called for ABC to fire late night host Jimmy Kimmel over jokes they call \u2018beyond the pale.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">WASHINGTON &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by ABC and parent company Walt Disney, joining his wife Melania Trump in calling out the late-night talk show host for a monologue he delivered prior to a shooting near a gathering of journalists and politicians over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kimmel said last Thursday, in a parody segment on the upcoming White House correspondents\u2019 dinner, that Melania Trump \u201chad a glow like an expectant widow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Trump and the first lady were rushed out of the dinner on Saturday after a shooting in the lobby of the Washington Hilton. A suspect identified as Cole Allen charged through a checkpoint and fired at Secret Service agents, wounding one, before he was subdued and arrested.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PL55WMTW3NGOHLVD7QOMNPNDLY.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Melania Trump (left) and Jimmy Kimmel (right). (Associated Press) Melania Trump (left) and Jimmy Kimmel (right). (Associated Press) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Trump has repeatedly urged broadcasters to remove comedy or news programs he dislikes or have been critical of him and pressed regulators to take action to revoke licenses of broadcasters he says are unfair to him. Broadcasters have broad First Amendment rights to make jokes &#8211; even ones that are distasteful, experts note.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Earlier on Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FLOTUS\/status\/2048769128513585618?s=20\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FLOTUS\/status\/2048769128513585618?s=20\">Melania Trump called Kimmel<\/a>\u2019s remarks \u201ccorrosive\u201d and a symptom of what she described as a political sickness in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Neither ABC nor Disney immediately responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cEnough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC\u2019s leadership enable Kimmel\u2019s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community,\u201d Melania Trump said in a post on X. \u201cPeople like Kimmel shouldn\u2019t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kimmel\u2019s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country.  His monologue about my family isn\u2019t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.  <\/p>\n<p>People like Kimmel shouldn\u2019t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 First Lady Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLOTUS\/status\/2048769128513585618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She added: \u201cKimmel\u2019s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country,\u201d the first lady wrote. \u201cHis monologue about my family isn\u2019t comedy &#8211; his words are corrosive and deepens (sic) the political sickness within America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Donald Trump, who previously called for Kimmel to be fired, said the comedian\u2019s joke was \u201csomething far beyond the pale. Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Reporting by David Shepardson, Daphne Psaledakis and Katharine Jackson; Editing by Michelle Nichols, David Gaffen and Matthew Lewis.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump and Melania Trump called for ABC to fire late night host Jimmy Kimmel over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[712,49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-633357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}